The LG-made Nexus 5X, one of the best Android phones around according to Mashable's Raymond Wong, is a 5.2-inch device with a hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, a 12.3-megapixel back camera, a 2,700mAh battery and 2GB of RAM.

Other specifications of note are a fingerprint scanner on the back and stock Android 6.0 software.

The $349 price is for the version with 16GB of storage. The price of the more expensive, 32GB variant has also been reduced, and it now costs $399.

We don't know the exact reasons behind the price reduction, but it could be that pressure from Chinese manufacturers such as Xiaomi and OnePlus made the Nexus 5X a slightly less attractive deal at its initial price point. For comparison, the recently released Xiaomi Redmi 3, which is a weaker phone in some regards but has a bigger battery, costs only $106 in China, while OnePlus' OnePlus 2, which has slightly stronger specs, costs $329.

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